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Serb Community Of White Carniola
Apart from the immigrant community that makes up the vast majority of Serbs in Slovenia, there are a few villages in the southern region of White Carniola inhabited by descendants of Serbs (Uskoks) that fled from the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century, beginning in 1528 and permanent by 1593. These immigrants founded settlements in which descendants of Serbs live to these days: Bojanci, Marindol, Paunoviči, Adlešiči, Žuniči, Miliči and others. The majority of the community ( sl, Srbi v Beli krajini) have kept the Serbian Orthodox faith and their distinctive culture, although they have been almost completely assimilated to their Slovene-speaking environment. Some of them became Uniate (Eastern Catholic) in the 17th and 18th century. History With the Ottoman conquest of Serbian territories, groups of Serbs fled to the north or west; of the western migrational groups, some settled in White Carniola and Žumberak. In September 1597, with the fall of Slatina, Croatia, Slatina, some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Črnomelj
Črnomelj (; in older sources also ''Černomelj'', german: Tschernembl''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 4.) is a town in southeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Črnomelj. It lies on the left bank of the Lahinja and Dobličica rivers. The municipality is at the heart of the area of White Carniola, the southeastern part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola. It is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. It includes the hamlets of Čardak, Kočevje, Kozji Plac, Loka, and Nova Loka. Name Črnomelj was first attested in written sources in 1228 as ''Schirnomel'' (and as ''Zernomel'' in 1263, ''Zermenli'' in 1277, and ''Tscherneml'' in 1490). The name is derived from ''*Čьrnomľь'', based on the hypocorism ''*Čьrnomъ'', thus originally meaning 'Črnom's settlement'. In the modern German the name was ''Tschernembl''. Until 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
